NDLI: Ego depletion and the use of mental contrasting

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Author	Sevincer, A. Timur Schlier, Björn Oettingen, Gabriele
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Mentally contrasting a desired future with present reality leads to goal pursuit in accordance with people’s expectations of realizing the desired future. Because mental contrasting is a purposeful self-regulation strategy that involves mental effort and complex information processing we suspected that people who are depleted or mentally fatigued are less likely to mentally contrast than those who are not. Indeed, participants who performed a depleting first task were less likely to subsequently mentally contrast about an important personal wish than those who performed a nondepleting first task. However, activating the desired future and present reality by priming (Study 1) or increasing the demand for mental contrasting by confronting participants with an impending task (Study 2) counteracted the effect of depletion on the reduced use of mental contrasting. We discuss implications for the use of mental contrasting and the strength model of self-control.
Starting Page	876
Ending Page	891
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01467239
Journal	Motivation and Emotion
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15736644
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-08-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Self-regulation Mental contrasting Ego depletion Expectations Content analysis Spontaneous thought Psychology Personality and Social Psychology Clinical Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Psychology

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